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And its just a port of Super Mario All-Stars...if Amazon JP are to be believed.

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Amazon has started taking pre-orders for Super Mario Collection Special Pack. If you feel the need to pre-order a game that you can probably pick up on day one without problem, by all means do so.

The big news from the listing is the product description, which appears to have been removed from the listing but was already cut and past into a story at the reliable Game Jouhou.

According to the description, Collection is a port of 1993's Super Mario Collection, known overseas as Super Mario All-Stars. In case you were hoping for a New Super Mario Bros. Wii graphics overhaul (and for ¥2,500, you really shouldn't have been), you can probably stop hoping for that right now.

Amazon also confirms that the game will include a booklet recapping 25 years of Mario history with previously unseen development materials and a soundtrack with music from the original Super Mario Bros. through Super Mario Galaxy 2.

Super Mario Collection Special Pack is being released to commemorate Super Mario's 25th anniversary and will be a limited time production, Amazon says. Hmm... maybe it would be a good idea to pre-order this one.

A bunch of listings for Collection have popped up at retailers and then disappeared today, so it's possible that Nintendo is asking retailers to hold off on the listings until the product has been officially announced. However one retailer did manage to post a tiny promotional image:

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So yeah as expected its just a limited edition thing to celebrate 25 years of the Super Mario series just like those NES games released for the GBA.

Eh, if this is to be believed, I was expecting it to be like that. At that price, it seemed pretty obvious that's what the game probably would've been. Would love to have one that received a graphical overhaul though, I loved New Super Mario Bros. Wii.

I'll laugh so hard if it's in a special colored DVD case. What happened to "New Super Mario Bros. Wii is a special game that deserved a special box, but it will be the only one. We won't be making anymore colored box games" (loose quote as I'm too lazy to look it up)

EDIT: Reading further down it looks like it's in a white case, so I rescind my above statement.